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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people lose money to telephone scams. One of the most infamous scams is the IRS scam - and it is still on the rise. On July 19, the IRS issued its Tax Tip 2018-111, "Here's How the IRS Contacts Taxpayers", to help people avoid becoming a victim of scammers who pretend to be from the IRS with a goal of stealing personal information and ultimately his/her money.
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On March 13, 2018 the IRS announced five new compliance campaigns (3/13/18 IRS Announcement - SECA Tax), one of which relates to the reporting of self-employment income by limited partners in partnerships and LLCs. In the past there has been much uncertainty and inconsistency about the reporting of self-employment income by LLC members. Sec. 1402(a)(13) states that, other than guaranteed payments, the distributive share of all other income to a "limited partner" is excluded from self-employment tax. This has led to many LLC members, whether active in the business or not, to exclude their earnings from self-employment taxes.
You have done your planning to make an IRA contribution or Roth IRA conversion and visit your broker to complete the paperwork to make the magic happen. You're given a myriad of documents to complete to set the account up, provide funding details and selecting a beneficiary. You start to gather your things to leave and then you're handed a three page document that appears to be a lot of "boiler plate" language and your broker tells you that no signature is required. You may not be aware that this document is the contract between you and your custodian and it lays out all of the rules you have agreed to follow. Much like a qualified retirement plan, the document governs everything.
For publicly traded companies the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminates the exceptions for performance- based compensation and commissions. Prior to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, performance- based compensation and commissions that exceeded $1 million were deductible under the exceptions available for these types of compensation to a covered employee. Previously, if a covered employee had a base salary of $500K and received performance- based bonuses of $4.5M the full $5M of compensation was deductible.
The Internal Revenue Service recently announced that the agency will waive certain late payment penalties pertaining to Section 965 of the Internal Revenue Code.